A police union recently seemed to invoke terrorism and school shootings in an effort to complain about Brooklyn College's policy that reportedly limits where on campus officers are allowed to use the restroom.
Per Law & Crime, the limitations actually stem from a false report in the New York Post which claimed that Brooklyn College “doesn’t want police using campus bathrooms.” The Sergeants Benevolent Assocation (SBA) responded to this policy on its official Twitter account with a highly controversial outlook on the situation.
Brooklyn College doesn’t want police using campus bathrooms https://t.co/Dx8qui59Xb via @nypmetro another anti police campus with no common sense. Active shooters, acts of terrorism on campuses and now remove the police. Maybe it's time people get what they ask for.— SBA (@SBANYPD) November 20, 2017
The actual story coming from Brooklyn College is that a group of students who are dissatisfied with officers using campus restrooms started a petition calling for an absolute ban on cops using campus facilities.
In a statement provided to the New York Post, the college states: “Brooklyn College offers the use of our facilities to the NYPD and other public servants…as a courtesy.”
Brooklyn College's student-run newspaper, The Excelsior, invited comments from the institution's Director of Public Safety Donald Wenz, who responded to the news of the petition with a compromise. Wenz requested that officers limit their use of the institution's facilities to one restroom specifically, “rather than walking across either quad to use the bathroom.”
Law & Crime reached out to Brooklyn College and SBA for a comment but neither organization could respond at the time of the report.